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last and contemporary
A brisk, satirical spoof of contemporary American mores entitled `` An American Journey '' was given its first New York performance at Hunter College Playhouse last night by the Helen Tamiris-Daniel Nagrin Dance Company.
The philosophical works, occupying the first six and the last of the twenty-one volumes, are generally divided according to the Aristotelian scheme of the sciences, and consist of interpretations and condensations of Aristotle's relative works, with supplementary discussions upon contemporary topics, and occasional divergences from the opinions of the master.
In the nineteenth century Samuel Sebastian Wesley ( 1810 – 1876 ) wrote anthems influenced by contemporary oratorio which stretch to several movements and last twenty minutes or longer.
* c. 630 – 587 BC, in the last decades of the kingdom of Judah ( contemporary with Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Habakkuk )
In contemporary records his name is most often given as Blackbeard, Edward Thatch, or Edward Teach and it is the last that today is most often used.
" The games on the whole, however, rated last on his survey of over 200 games for the Atari, Intellivision, Astrocade and Odyssey consoles, and contemporary games were rated " Average " with future Channel F games rated " below average ".
These albums ( except the last ) were also known for using contemporary paintings as cover art, featuring the work of Joan Miró on Time Further Out, Franz Kline on Time in Outer Space, and Sam Francis on Time Changes.
However, over the last hundred years or so, authorities have recognized that the dagger, in its contemporary or mature form, has come to incorporate certain definable characteristics, including a short blade with a sharply-tapered point, a central spine or fuller, and ( usually ) two cutting edges sharpened the full length of the blade, or nearly so.
The last two kings of its Pérez Dynasty were called emperors in a contemporary source.
Lewis's tale appalled some contemporary readers ; however his portrayal of depraved monks, sadistic inquisitors and spectral nuns, and his scurrilous view of the Catholic Church was an important development in the genre and influenced established terror-writer Anne Radcliffe in her last novel The Italian ( 1797 ).
Isidore was one of the last of the ancient Christian philosophers ; he was the last of the great Latin Church Fathers and was contemporary with Maximus the Confessor.
The ranks and insignia of 1943 did not change much until the last days of the USSR ; the contemporary Russian Army uses largely the same system.
Having fallen ill with malaria, Pope Leo X died on 1 December 1521, so suddenly that the last sacraments could not be administered ; but the contemporary suspicions of poison were unfounded.
On the other hand, David ben Yom-Tob ibn Bilia, in his " Yesodot ha-Maskil " ( Fundamentals of the Thinking Man ), adds to the 13 of Maimonides 13 of his own — a number which a contemporary of Albo also chose for his fundamentals ; while Jedaiah Penini, in the last chapter of his " Behinat ha-Dat ," enumerated no less than 35 cardinal principles.
' It has taken a while for us to catch on, but now that his major work-' Life: A User's Manual ' ( 1978 )-has at last been translated into English it will be impossible for us to think of contemporary French writing in the same way again.
In the last two decades, Salerno became one of the most important cities in the world for great contemporary architecture.
There is too great a conflict between the contemporary sources to confirm the actual nature of Tiberius ' death and the personal conflicts that lead up to it, but it is highly likely that Scipio Nasica was the man who led the senators to attack Tiberius, that Octavius did oppose his law and last that Scipio Aemilianus did not agree with Tiberius ' actions, even if it was not to the point that he wished Tiberius dead.
The text's influence on other writers has grown since its initial shunning, and contemporary American author Tom Robbins is among the writers working today to have expressed his admiration for Joyce's complex last work: the language in it is incredible.
The contemporary press referred to these works as " Savoy Operas ", and S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald regarded Workman's pieces as the last Savoy Operas.
In Der Stechlin ( 1899 ), his last completed novel, Fontane adapted the realistic methods and social criticism of contemporary French fiction to the conditions of Prussian life.
His last hit single, " A Strange Song ", was released in 1967 and peaked at number 5 on the Adult contemporary music charts.
The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to develop a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta Stone to last from 2000 to 12, 000 AD ; it is run by the Long Now Foundation.
A Panegyrick to His Majesty on his Happy Return, one of the many contemporary poems celebrating the restoration of Charles II, was the last of Fuller's verse efforts.
This was acknowledged when The Adverts opened Nightingale's first show, T. V. Smith beginning with the words " At last the 1978 show " ( a pun on the television comedy At Last the 1948 Show ) and a sigh of relief that the programme was finally contemporary.

last and mention
But I promised Joyce I would mention her name, if at all, only as a last resort.
I will mention two volumes of specific comment on this malaise that appeared last year.
The audience last night did not respond with either applause or boos to mention of Hughes' remark.
Advance publicity on the Los Angeles Blue Book does not mention names dropped as did the notices for the New York Social Register which made news last week.
The last mention of Ambrose in the historical record is in Origen's Contra Celsum, which the latter wrote at the solicitation of Ambrose.
The third and last mention of the phrase is in the First Letter of Peter, verses.
This is a relatively recent phenomenon ; until the last few decades a sovereign was seen as the personal embodiment of the state (" L ' etat c ' est moi ", so to speak ), and therefore could not be head of himself or herself ( hence many constitutions from the 19th century and earlier make no mention of a " head of state ").
One last mention of Niflheimr appears where it is the last destination of the jötunn who was killed by Thor after he had built Asgard:
Cassius Dio is most likely not only the first author to mention the Alamanni but also the last one to record an actual historical appearance of the Chatti.
The last ancient source to mention the Chatti, if only in a quotation of Sulpicius Alexander describing events of the late 4th century, was Gregory of Tours.
The last mention of chariot use in battle seems to be at the Battle of Mons Graupius, somewhere in modern Scotland, in AD 84.
These written accounts are the last mention of ninja in war.
Gygax then provided some errata for the boxed set in the September 1985 issue, which was the last mention of the Greyhawk world in Dragon for almost two years.
By the time Mazarin returned from his second and last exile in February 1653, Thomas, who accompanied the court to St Denis to welcome the Cardinal home, was insignificant again-an analysis of Mazarin's close colleagues at this time by the later historian Chéruel made no mention of him.
By the time Mazarin returned from his second and last exile in February 1653, Thomas, who accompanied the court to St Denis to welcome the Cardinal home, was insignificant again-an analysis of Mazarin's close colleagues at this time by the later historian Chéruel made no mention of him.
Southey's mind was giving way when he wrote a last letter to his friend Landor in 1839, but he continued to mention Landor's name when generally incapable of mentioning any one.
155 AD: last mention of northern Chanyu.
The region, however, was not organized as a province until the last years of Augustus ' reign ; in 6 AD, mention is made of its governor, Caecina Severus ( Cassius Dio lv.
His last mention is as an adviser to Demetrius in 313 / 2 BC ( D 19. 69. 1 ); what happened after that is not known, although he probably retired to write his history.
2 ) # 129 contains the first mention of the JSA in the Silver Age, and refers directly to their last adventure in All-Star Comics # 57, while in Flash ( vol.
but I may mention that this last conclusion cannot be true except so long as the compressed vapors remain entirely in the elastic state ; and this requires that their temperature shall be sufficiently elevated to enable them to resist the pressure which tends to make them assume the liquid state.
Among other sights in Hrodna and its environs, we should mention the Orthodox cathedral, a polychrome Russian Revival extravaganza from 1904 ; the botanical garden, the first in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, founded in 1774 ; a curiously curved building on the central square ( 1780s ); a 254-metre-high TV tower ( 1984 ); and Stanisławów, a summer residence of the last Polish king.
On 15 March 2010, Liam defended his actions at the awards ceremony, saying " I'm sick of it all being about me and Noel, the last couple of months has pretty much been all about me and him so I thought it was only right to mention the other lads who played on the album and the best fans in the world.
For example there is mention of late armor ( 1 Samuel 17: 4 – 7, 38 – 39 ; 25: 13 ), use of camels ( 1 Samuel 30: 17 ) and cavalry ( as distinct from chariotry ) ( 1 Samuel 13: 5, 2 Samuel 1: 6 ), iron picks and axes ( as though they were common, 2 Samuel 12: 31 ), sophisticated siege techniques ( 2 Samuel 20: 15 ), there is a gargantuan troop ( 2 Samuel 17: 1 ), a battle with 20, 000 casualties ( 2 Samuel 18: 7 ), and refer to Kushite paramilitary and servants, clearly giving evidence of a date in which Kushites were common, after the 26th Dynasty of Egypt, the period of the last quarter of the 8th century BCE.

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